Category: Education
Court Sentences Two Secondary School Students To Prison
A Lagos High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square, TBS, has sentenced two Senior Secondary School (SSS 3) leavers Udochukwu Anyanwu and Udo Chibike (also known as Lasis), to seven years imprisonment each for breaking into a church and stealing a piano. Justice Yetunde Adesanya sentenced them after they pleaded…
Wow! Three Children Disappear From School – How?
Men of the FCT Police Command, have arrested teachers and the proprietor of Star Child Academy in Kabusa, Abuja over the sudden disappearance of three pupils in the school. According to reports, the mother of the children identified as Marvelous, Alex and Rehoboth Sunday, had gone to their school on…
NAAT Directs Branches To Commence Two Week Strike
20/3/2022. NAAT /StrikeThe National Association of Academic TechnologistsNAAT, has directed all its branches to commence a two week warning strike with effect from tomorrow 21st, March, 2022, over alleged failure of the Federal Government to implement the 2009 agreement.A statement by the. association’ s President, Comrade…
ASUU Rejects NASS Push For More Varsities
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has rejected the initiation of new bills for the creation of new universities in Nigeria.ASUU National President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, told Newsmen that the government was yet to meet up with the needs of existing universities, yet it was pushing for the creation of new…
HOR Wants Automatic Employment For First Class Graduates
The House of Representatives has urged the federal ministry of education to liaise with relevant government agencies to ensure automatic employment of first class graduates of Nigerian institutions. This was sequel to a motion by a member from Imo State, Mr Emeka Chinedu at plenary. The lawmaker expressed concern with…
ASUU: Kwara Varsity Supports Warning Strike
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete branchhas expressed its support for the ongoing warning strike declared by the union’s national body. The branch, however, attributed the inability of its members to participate in the industrial action to some challenges facing the state owned university.…
Buhari Tasks WAEC On Online Exam, Marking System
President Muhammadu Buhari has charged the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, to go into online examination and Marking system in the next few years to conform with the global best practices in the world of examinining candidates in twenty-first century. The President gave the charge in a message to the…
Sylvester Oromoni: Nurse Makes Revelation
A Ukraine-trained resident nurse of Dowen College, Ms Omobola Kayode, has revealed that the late 12-year-old Sylvester Oromoni Jnr., who was allegedly beaten up by some senior students had a minor injury on his thigh when she came in contact with him. The nurse who holds a Bachelor of Science…
No Extension of Registration – JAMB
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board JAMB says the ongoing 2022 UTME/DE registration exercise scheduled to end on 26th March, will not be extended. A statement by JAMB’s head of Public Relations Dr Fabian Benjamin says the time scheduled for the registration exercise from 19th February to 26th March, 2022,…